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The Mill Valley Film Festival Returneth

If one happens to be the kind of local movie fan who loves spending hours pouring over the Mill Valley Film Festival catalog every year, we won’t judge. We get it. There’s no rabbit hole quite like that of a good, detailed film festival catalog. All those movies. All those comprehensively-fact-packed...

Technothriller: What a ‘Maligned Little Subgenre’ Tells Us...

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Brings Tears to Your Ice, ‘Time and Water’...

For every Moonlight or Brokeback Mountain, a dozen other queer movies come along that deserve massive recognition.

Watch This: Pride Month Movies to Screen This June

Jun 16, 2026

Happy Pride Month, everyone. While there have been amazing queer films produced over the last several decades, Hollywood still...

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A new documentary, 'The Dreamers and I,' by Marin filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto, follows immigrant entrepreneurs over a 10-year period.

Dreamers: Local Filmmakers’ New Doc Profiles Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Jun 9, 2026

Silicon Valley has spent decades selling the same mythology: the lone visionary with a disruptive idea who survives sleepless...

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DocLands Documentary Film Festival, the California Film Institute’s annual nonfiction showcase in Marin, returns in 2026 with a lineup that leans into resilience, revelation and the radical act of paying attention.

DocLands Returns to the Rafael with Bounty of Documentaries

Apr 14, 2026

There’s a certain kind of optimism required to make a documentary right now—a belief that reality is still worth...

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The matter of empathy is at the heart of the film Bugonia—key to its narrative, and its effectiveness as a work of art.

Empathy Machines. Can Films Increase Compassion?

Feb 17, 2026

Screenwriter Will Tracy is nominated for an Oscar for his script for the film Bugonia, released in theaters last...

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Al-Stravaganza, a traveling burlesque show inspired by, and set to, the music of Weird Al Yankovic.

‘Tight & Nerdy,’ Burlesque Meets Weird Al Onscreen

Feb 3, 2026

Burlesque sometimes makes for strange bedfellows—a Star Wars-themed performance is an annual local favorite, for example. But something weirder...

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It’s time to spotlight a few pretty great Thanksgiving films for those of us who prefer cinema to sports.

Thankful Movies, No Turkeys for Personal T-Day Film Festival

Nov 24, 2025

Thanksgiving movies don’t get the credit they deserve. We get a ton of Christmas, Halloween and other holiday movies...

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MVFF’s 2025 ‘Mind the Gap’ Prize Goes to Tatti Ribeiro, a Graduate of Tamalpais...

Oct 1, 2025

The Mill Valley Film Festival (October 2–12, 2025) awarded this year’s Mind the Gap Creation Prize to Tatti Ribeiro...

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